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The Effects of Mental Health Interventions on Labor Market Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Lund, Crick; Orkin, Kate; Witte, Marc; Walker, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Mental health conditions are prevalent but rarely treated in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Little is known about how these conditions affect economic participation. This paper shows that treating mental health conditions substantially improves recipients' capacity to work in these...

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Disemployment Effects of Unemployment Insurance : A Meta-Analysis

Cohen, Jonathan P.; Ganong, Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant findings are eleven times more likely to be published. Correcting for publication bias halves the average elasticity. Meta-analysis provides a principled way for sufficient...

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The Impact of Early Childhood Parenting Interventions on Child Learning : A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Dadisman, Kimberly; Nickow, Andre; Oreopoulos, Philip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Parenting is widely considered to be among the most important influences on early childhood (EC) development. But to what extent and under what circumstances can EC parenting programs improve child learning outcomes? While substantial progress has been made toward addressing these questions in...

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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment

Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

interactions with other participants. Among those outside of science, technology, engineering, and math fields (STEM), we find …

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Storm Crowds : Evidence from Zooniverse on Crowd Contribution Design

Barbosu, Sandra - 2017

Crowdsourcing - a collaborative form of content production based on the contributions of large groups of individuals … belonging to a community, and symbolic rewards within crowdsourcing websites. One factor that has received limited attention in … the existing literature is how the design of crowdsourcing platforms affects their sustainability. We study whether the …

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Crowdsourcing City Government : Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016

Can open tournaments improve the quality of city services? The proliferation of big data makes it possible to use predictive analytics to better target services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities...

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Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry : Early Evidence from Open Banking

Babina, Tania; Bahaj, Saleem; Buchak, Greg; De Marco, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Open banking (OB) empowers bank customers to share transaction data with fintechs and other banks. 49 countries have adopted OB policies. Consumer trust in fintechs predicts OB policy adoption and adoption spurs investment in fintechs. UK microdata shows that OB enables: i) consumers to access...

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Can Socially-Minded Governance Control the AGI Beast?

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper robustly concludes that it cannot. A model is constructed under idealised conditions that presume the risks associated with artificial general intelligence (AGI) are real, that safe AGI products are possible, and that there exist socially-minded funders who are interested in funding...

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Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source : Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program

Conti, Annamaria; Gupta, Vansh; Guzman, Jorge; Roche, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...

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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations--innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...

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